Five more prominent law firms facing possible criminal action by President Trump arrived on Friday with the White House to provide a total of $ 600 million to free legal services to support the president.
Four of the businesses – Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, A & O Shearman and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett – each agreed to provide $ 125 million to a pro bono or free legal work, according to Mr Trump. A fifth company, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, agreed to provide at least $ 100 million in Pro Bono.
With the last round of agreements, some of the largest businesses in the legal profession agreed last month to provide a total of $ 940 million to free legal services preferred by Trump’s administration, including those with “conservative ideals”.
Mr Trump announced the agreements between his administration and the law firms on Friday for Truth Social, the platform owned by the Social Media Society, Trump Media & Technology Group.
The leading lawyers from each business provided a statement to the White House, which was included in the posts of social media. Earlier this week, the New York Times reported the negotiations with four businesses.
The agreements were announced during a week in which Mr Trump spoke openly to the Oval Office about the use of businesses with which he has achieved agreements to help negotiate trade agreements with other countries and even work on carbon lease agreements.
Mr Trump did not specifically mention the possible work on trade or carbon lease agreements in social media positions. On the contrary, positions have said that businesses would devote free legal work to things such as the fight against anti -Semitism, helping Gold Star families, helping law enforcement and “ensuring justice in our justice system”.
The terms are similar to those that Mr Trump has previously announced with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. Skadden, ARPS, SLATE, MEAGHER & FLOM. Willkie Farr & Gallagher; and Milbank.
Law firms are settled by Trump’s administration to launch the executive orders that will find it difficult to represent clients with federal contracts or seeking government regulatory approvals. Three operations are competing for Mr Trump’s executive orders to the Federal Court and the judges have temporarily remain the orders against Perkins Coie, Wilmerhale and Jenner & Block since the entry into force.
A fourth operation, Susman Godfrey, was hit by an executive order this week and said he intends to fight in court with Trump’s administration.
Mr Trump goes after lawyers who have hired lawyers who perceive his political enemies, representing causes that opposed or refused to represent people because of their conservative and right -wing political beliefs. Some businesses are also aimed at recruitment practices that promote the principle of having a different workforce.
The president has repeatedly stated that policies of diversity, shares and recruitment integration are illegal and discreet and that he intends to get rid of them. The Federal Committee on Equal Opportunities Opportunities, in what was considered as a related move, sent letters to 20 law firms last month requesting information on the dei practices.
Four of the operations that arrived at the agreements with Mr Trump – Kirkland, Latham, Shearman and Simpson Thacher – had received one of these letters. During the resolution, Mr Trump said that EEOC agreed not to claim claims against these four operations.
Teachers of law and others in the legal industry have praised businesses in the administration, criticizing those who have been installed. Critics have said that every new settlement only encourages Mr Trump to become even more excited about his demands for free legal work.
Trump’s administration seems to believe that he is “developing a war breast of legal entities or military” to do a job for it, said Harold Hongju Koh, a professor of international law in Yale Law School, who was a writer in a recently published document.
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